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Asian tensions top summit agenda

Territorial disputes in South China Sea to dominate discussions at security conference in Singapore.

03 Jun 2011 07:39 GMT

Growing territorial disputes in the South China Sea will be the focus of a major security summit in Singapore.

The US defence secretary and Asian defence ministers are meeting in the city state for the pre-eminent annual Asian security conference called Shangri-La Dialogue. It is the first time China's defence minister will be attending the conference beginning on Friday.